Stolen diamonds stashed where the sun don't shine

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2007

KINSHASA (AFP) — A pilfering worker in a Congolese diamond mine was caught in the act when he walked past a security scanner with 126 of the sparkling gems stashed up his rear end, a mine spokesman has said. The would-be thief, a cleaner, "hid the small stones" -- valued at 5,000 dollars (3,900 euros) -- "in his anus," explained Mike Mutombo of the Miba mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday.

"An investigation has been opened and the heads of the relevant services have been suspended," he said, adding that it was "practically impossible" for the heist to have been organized without the connivance of others in the selection center where the cleaner worked. No information was released as to how the diamonds were recovered, or whether the man was...